The Minister [of Information Dr. Adnan Mahmoud] added that the Cabinet also assigned the public bodies to provide the technical equipment and workshops for reconstructing and fixing all that was destroyed by the armed terrorist groups of public and private institutions, utilities and infrastructures in the city of Jisr al-Shughour.

Even though the Iraqi government refuses to agree to the permanent presence of US troops in its country, the US will be able to keep a force of notorious private security contractors similar to Black Water under the pretext of providing security for its nearly 3,000 diplomats and contractors in Iraq.